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Sound, Dance and Motion from Franz Boas’s Field Research in British Columbia to Franziska Boas’s Dance Therapy

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The Scope of Movement. Psychological and Philosophical Investigations. Guest Editors: Jagna Brudzińska, Alice Pugliese

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The article briefly introduces a path, that starts from the Franz Boas’ anthropological field research in British Columbia about sound, dance and motion among the Indians until the 1930s to the practice of dance and sound as a therapeutic issue in Franziska Boas’ work in New York.